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The soft-focus sound: reverb as a gendered attribute in mid-century mood music.

Perspectives of New Music

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Hebenstreit liked to roll great billows of arpeggiated chords over the wide range of his instrument and to allow the full resonance of the undampened strings to die slowly on the listeners' ears. It was a new sensation at the time, and it seemed ravishing.

Arthur Loesser on Pantaleon Hebenstreit, exponent of the triple-strung dulcimer around the year 1700

IN 1783, the Broadwood Piano Company of London began incorporating into the design of its instruments a sustain pedal mechanism. The device allowed a performer to instantaneously raise all the dampers off the strings at any time; a rich resonant effect could be achieved even if the player depressed a ...

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